Architects Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, partners at AGENCY, have teamed up with a group of Texas Tech University architecture students to design FLASH INSTALLATION, a pop-up architectural installation made from repurposed traffic barrels. Threaded together, the suspended barrels create a ‘barrel cloud’ that sways en masse, creating patterns of light and shadow. The creative project helped reactivate the underused canopy and parking lot into an engaging public space.
The project,...

Architects Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, partners at AGENCY, have teamed up with a group of Texas Tech University architecture students to design FLASH INSTALLATION, a pop-up architectural installation made from repurposed traffic barrels. Threaded together, the suspended barrels create a ‘barrel cloud’ that sways en masse, creating patterns of light and shadow. The creative project helped reactivate the underused canopy and parking lot into an engaging public space.